Melies' outline and narrative of the film
Melies wrote an outline to sketch out his ideas for the tableaux of the film. Early films were really nothing more that filmed stage productions in many ways. Filmmakers had yet to discover many of the techniques known to us today. Melies defined his film in terms of 30 "tableaux".We are fortunate today to still have -
Melies' outline of A Trip to the Moon
Silent film fans will tell you that silent films were hardly ever silent. Very often they were accompanied by piano, organ or even a full orchestra. For selected showings of some of Melies' films, an accompanying human would describe the action.
In this case a person would use -
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